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        if (!extension_loaded('mbstring')) {
            throw new Exception('"mbstring" extension not loaded, ABC5 requires mbstring to work correctly');
        }
        
        setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL.UTF-8');
        
        mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
        mb_http_output('UTF-8');
        mb_http_input('UTF-8');
        
        ini_set('mbstring.func_overload', 7);
        ini_set('mbstring.http_input', 'UTF-8');
        ini_set('mbstring.http_output', 'UTF-8');
        ini_set('mbstring.internal_encoding', 'UTF-8');
        //use unicode internally
        
        $detectOrder[] = "UTF-8";
        $detectOrder[] = "ASCII";        
        mb_detect_order($detectOrder);